Roadman, my dedication to you knows no bounds
Roadman, my dedication to you knows no bounds. I'm bringing you this podcast from the airport in Bogota. Let's cure that intro! The big question is this. How do we use cycling as a tool to improve our health, our happiness and our longevity? That is the question. This podcast will give you the answers. My name is Anthony Welch and welcome to the Roadman Podcast. Roadman, as I said in the intro my dedication to you defines it knows no bounds. I found myself a quiet little corner so excuse if at times it's not that quiet or you hear some you know crazy announcements in the background but yes I am in Bogota and I'm bringing you this I've made it from Dublin to Amsterdam Amsterdam to Charles the Gull Charles the Gull to Bogota and now I'm going Bogota to Cartagania. So I absolutely cannot wait but I wanted to bring this podcast and talk to you about how you can beat long haul air travel. I've had so many flights since I became a cyclist and a lot of that was down to for I suppose the big racing years of my life spent between France, Canada and America and then wanting to get home to Ireland because I'm an Irish lad and I miss me mad. So trying to get home with every penny I had but it just meant I had a crazy amount of flights like talking upwards of 50 flights in some years and with that you get to be a little bit more seasoned in the airport and I just wanted to share with you a few of the tips and tricks I've learned along the way that have made for me a little bit easier. Before I do even in Bogota I'm going to encourage you to head on over to patreon.com forward slash Anthony underscore waltz and make a contribution to support the podcast. I'm a small independent creator and small independent creators like me. We rely on user generosity, user funding to support the to support the podcast and keep it moving forward and keep it moving forward in the manner that we all love in a sort of impartial way where I can give honest opinions about products and say to you don't buy this, buy this without fear of, you know, being influenced. At some point we might move away from this model but I'm really romantic and I want to stay with it. So get me a new year beer and let me enjoy it down on Katanya. Definitely saying that wrong. There's definitely some Spanish I've wanted to, native Spanish speakers that are client-to-mind and I know they're already listening to this podcast and they're like, dude you are butchering our native tongue. Right let me talk to you in no particular order about someone a little hacks and tricks on using while traveling abroad. Your carry-on bag is the secret to a happy journey. I see people without carrying on bag and I'm like, you're screwed. You're screwed already because you just can't have these essentials that you need to survive long haul. You need your earphones, which you need. Good noise cancelling earphones. You need to have your podcasts pre-download because for some reason we can stick planes in the sky, we can stick rockets on Mars but we haven't figured out how to push Wi-Fi onto an airplane. That shit baffles me. So you need to have your podcast downloaded. You want to have your iPod, I pad with you with some Netflix stuff downloaded because you really don't want to be relying on the movie choice and you want to have your chargers with you.
Your book also. And that's kind of my my book and writing material,…
Your book also. And that's kind of my my book and writing material, sorry. And that's kind of my action pack, if I'll call it, my entertainment system inside my carry-on. Now here's the bits that make or break how you feel when you get to your destination. You need to drink a shit ton of water. The air getting recycled with the frequency that it gets recycled on airplanes results in massive dehydration and a number of other factors. but I'd recommend trying to get in 500 mil per hour. Yes, you're gonna be up and pissing every 20 minutes to the toilet, but that's also a good thing. Into the water, you can throw an electrolyte tablet, but it would go easy on the salts because salts will really bloat you, like carbohydrates and excess sodium on travel days, will really bloat you, and you're gonna hold on to a lot of fluids. So I typically don't go too heavy on the electrolyte tablets and try and stick mainly to water. If I am looking for a little bit of electrolyte, I'll try and have a little bit of pineapple juice with my water. You need to plan ahead and that needs to be brought. But, you know, after you get true, because you're not going to be able to carry you true, but it's typically difficult enough to find. So, it's normally just water for me. As I said, I do try and avoid salt and heavy carbohydrate meals. I've been rocking my blue light blockers during the roadman resources or an optics or the one I'm using just because they're epic. If you've got to go and research it, you're going to find the same conclusion I did that they're the best in the game at what they do and they're costing nothing. They're cheap as chips. I really want some EMF blocking, but I don't have any. So if you're using good EMF blocking, hitting me up on Instagram on roadman.scycling and let me know what EMF blocking, why is that so hard for me to say EMF blocking, it's the blocking. It's the ING, it's the end of that and the clothing that's getting me. That's what's happening there. Yeah, I'm super interested in that. The non-tinfoil hard-goiled two EMFs is a book I read a while ago and it's a very, very interesting read and I swore I would have EMF blocking clothing but a time I came to do in long haul travel again but I didn't anticipate it being this soon with COVID and all that goes around COVID. By the way, has anyone had a COVID test recently? They're pretty miserable. It's miserable if you don't know what it is, but if somebody's told you how miserable it is, I feel like it's not as miserable as they've portrayed it to be. But yeah, it isn't a pretty nasty experience. It's a pretty long stick getting stuck down your throat that you gag on, and then it's like you get speared in the nose and it's like it goes into your brain. Bit of a tangent. Two other things I'm doing that are really helping on flights. I'm moving, I'm moving a lot. That's why drinking the water helps because I'm up every few minutes pissing. But I'm moving and I'm trying to do in the bathroom. I'm doing air squats. I'm doing, you know, just even a little high knees in the bathroom. I'm stretching. I'm just bending, twisting, moving as much as I can. That really, really helps to keep the blood flow going. I spend as much time standing as I do sitting on a flight.
If anyone travels with me me, I've seen this, that I do spend a lot…
And if anyone travels with me me, I've seen this, that I do spend a lot of time in the gangway chatting to people, just around the toilet, in the toilet. I don't like to be stationary for too long. My legs just feel so terrible the next day after if I do. What's helping a lot on this trip with it, I have to say is, and I had the founder on the roadman summit is Peridot. It's the electron muscle stimulation and it's brilliant for just sticking it on. There's a travel I'm not affiliated with Peridot. I paid for my Peridot. So it's an honest and back to the Starry's wife, Peridot sponsored a podcast, hard for me to say Peridot's a piece of shit. Well, Peridot don't sponsor the podcast, and it is a good product. I have to say, I've been using it after trying a little bit, but it is cumbersome and it takes a little bit of time to get set up. But when you're sitting on a plane and you don't have much else to do for 10 hours, getting set up all of a sudden becomes a bit of a positive because you're like, of a positive because you're like, well, there's 15 minutes I can kill. And once you have it set up, you can actually roll around and you can walk up and down to the toilet with it, you can walk around with it. It's nice, gets the blood flowing through the legs. The last thing I would consider on a flight is I would consider intermittent fasting. It's a good opportunity to intermittent fast. Depending on the timing of your flight, you might be able to fast. So I flew 8 a.m. leaving Dublin into Amsterdam and then on to Paris. And I didn't start eating till I got to Paris. That worked super well for me. You get that intermittent fast and block and you resist the urge to eat a shit ton of calories on a day when you're basically stationary. Roman, this podcast has been brought to you in quite hectic circumstances, trying to find a quiet space to get this recorded. And then on my next job is to find equally quiet space to try and get this edited has been a challenge, but I didn't want to let you down. I didn't want to break my five days a week, roadman podcast promise to you. Here you go, roadman. We're heading into the weekend. I'm heading to Cartaganya and all next week I'm gonna keep you posted about the delights and the joys of Colombia. Chat your next week, roadman. Enjoy your weekend. Hey everybody, it's Anthony again. Really quick, I want to invite you to join arguably the best thing I've ever put out inside the roadman community. It's a challenge. challenge called a 14 day kickstart challenge. So regardless of where your fitness is at right now, this is going to be the catalyst for making you faster and making you leaner. I've created this challenge to take the guesswork out of everything. It's 14 days of training plans regardless of what your level is. There's the master's beginner advanced, there's meal plans shopping list and even a video course holding your hand and talking you true at all. So what I recommend you do right now is just stop everything, press pause on this audio and go to roadmancycling.com forward slash 14 day or check out the link in the bio that roadmancycling.com slash 14 day